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Source tarball update/fix



Hi,

When I had my first Debian package accepted (Midori, last year), somehow
the source tarball (.orig.tar.bz2) file got changed during the upload by
my sponsor.  I do not really know what happened (I remember checking
everything over and over, and the pristine-tar branch on the repository
*is* correct), but now it is time to fix it.

After reading the policy and having a brief chat with Paul Tagliamonte
on #debian-devel, the apparent solution would be to rename the source
tarball.  Today, it is named "midori_0.5.11.orig.tar.bz2".  My decision
was to rename it to "midori_0.5.11~ds1.orig.tar.bz2".  I tried doing
that, and my upload got rejected again, because "midori_0.5.11~ds1-1 is
newer than midori_0.5.11-2" (which is the latest version on testing).

This whole mistake made me learn a thing or two about the internals, but
now I think it is time to ask for some help.  Is there any way I can fix
the original problem?  How does the source tarball need to be named in
order to obey the policy and have the package accepted?  It seems to me
that I am missing something simple here, but I cannot figure out what it
is.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

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